Sharon Machlis
Executive Editor, Data & Analytics
Sharon Machlis is Director of Editorial Data & Analytics at IDG, where she works on analyzing data (both for IDG Enterprise Web sites and journalism projects) and in-house editor tools in addition to writing and editing. Her tech interests include data visualization and analysis as well as the intersection of journalism and technology. She holds an Extra class amateur radio license and is currently somewhat obsessed with R. Her book Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism was published in December 2018.
How to send text messages from R
See how easily you can send texts directly from an R script with Twilio and the twilio R package
How to do spatial analysis in R with sf
See how easy it is to use the sf package for GIS calculations to find the ZIP code for an address in R
How to merge data in R using R merge, dplyr, or data.table
See how to join two data sets by one or more common columns using base R’s merge function, dplyr join functions, and the speedy data.table package
Get API data with R
No R package for the API you want? It’s easy to write your own function with the httr and jsonlite packages.
How to write your own ggplot2 functions in R
You no longer have to worry about quoted and unquoted column names when using ggplot2, thanks to the latest version of the rlang package
How to use .SD in the R data.table package
See how to use data.table's special .SD symbol to perform calculations and other tasks by group
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How to calculate month-over-month changes in R
See how to generate weekly and monthly reports in R including month-over-month, week-over-week, and year-over-year changes
How to Slack from R
See how to send text messages and files directly from an R script to Slack with the slackr package
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How to send email from R and Gmail
See how to automate sending email with the R language, a Gmail account, and the gmailr R package
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How to use RStudio code snippets
Save time by storing your best and most-used code in RStudio snippets
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Turn an R Markdown document into an interactive experience
Supercharge your R code's interactivity with R Markdown and runtime Shiny
Tidy eval in R: A simple example
Do you want to use ggplot2, dplyr, or other tidyverse functions in your own functions? This easy example shows how
How to write an R package
R packages are great for organizing your own work, not only sharing with others. See how to create an R package in a few simple steps, thanks to packages like devtools, usethis, and roxygen2
How to run Python in R
Learn how to run Python code inside an R script using the reticulate R package
Do more with R: Write your own RStudio addins
This RStudio addins tutorial walks you step by step through creating an extension for the RStudio IDE
How to create color-coded calendars in R
Track your goals with color-coded calendars created with R packages ggplot2 and ggcal
Do more with R: RStudio addins and keyboard shortcuts
Speed up your R programming workflow with RStudio addins and customized keyboard shortcuts
Do more with R: Quick lookup tables using named vectors
Learn how named vectors give R developers an easy to use key-value pairs
R tip: Keep your passwords and tokens secure with the keyring package
Saving tokens and passwords in an R environment variable means they’re stored in an unencrypted, clear text file. With the keyring package, your credentials are more secure
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